Celtic Folklore Welsh and ManxLibrary of Alexandria, 28. sep. 2020 TOWARDS the close of the seventies I began to collect Welsh folklore. I did so partly because others had set the example elsewhere, and partly in order to see whether Wales could boast of any story-tellers of the kind that delight the readers of Campbell'sPopular Tales of the West Highlands. I soon found what I was not wholly unprepared for, that as a rule I could not get a single story of any length from the mouths of any of my fellow countrymen, but a considerable number of bits of stories. |
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... mean small fish; but the pronunciation of silli or sìli being nearly that of the English word silly, it appears, on the whole, to belong to the host of English words to be found in colloquial Welsh, though they seldom ... means probably a.
John Rhys. is simply the English silly frit, and means probably a silly sprite or silly ghost, and sìliffrit Leisa Bèla would mean the silly ghost of a woman called Liza Bella. But the silly frit found spinning near Corwrion Pool will ...
... at Aberystwyth, is one of the Meddygon. That means the year Mi, when this chapter was written, excepting the portions concerning which the reader is apprised of a later date. 19:1 Later it will be seen that the triban in.
... means the Lake of the Loch Dingle. 24:1 I make no attempt to translate these lines, but I find that Mr. Llewellyn Williams has found a still more obscure version of them, as follows: Prw medd, Prw medd, prw'r gwarihegi dre', Prw milfach ...
... means the flat land near a river. 39:2 Betws (or Bettws) Garmon seems to mean Germanus's Bedehûs or House of Prayer, but Garmon can hardly have come down in Welsh from the time of the famous saint in the fifth century, as it would then ...